An interventional study of IPS program : Self-image and body representation and TAU in Schizophrenia, Bipolar Disorder and Personality Disorders, sponsored by Hôpital le Vinatier. Completed at 1 site in France. Open to participants aged 18 Years to 65 Years. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2025-07-31.
Sponsored by Hôpital le Vinatier · Not applicable, Interventional, and Treatment
The body esteem influences the physical appearance, which can be a social brake. To enhance the socio-professional insertion of persons with severe mental disorders, the investigators developed a group program about self-presentation and body esteem. The study's objective is to understand the body esteem impact on socio-professional insertion, and how to improve that with a dedicated group program, for patients in a psychosocial rehabilitation center
Our hypothesis is that a group program centered on the image and the presentation of the self, with the intervention of professionals of the image of the body, such as socio-hairdresser, socio-beautician, allows a better socio-professional inclusion, through an improvement in body self-esteem. Taking care of yourself will require different approaches such as advice on hygiene, becoming aware of your body, experimenting with beauty treatments and having the means to reproduce them at home. We will compare our IPS program (Image and Presentation of Self), with the usual management in the care center (TAU = "Treatment As Usual")
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The IPS program (Self-image and body representation) was designed by Dr PLAZAT and coll. for specific use with patients with severe mental disorders suffering of low self- and body-esteem and aiming at " reinsert themselves" in the society.
Behavioral: IPS program : Self-image and body representation
Treatment As Usual : the usual care proposed by the health service (SUR/CL3R).
Behavioral: TAU
The IPS program consists in 13 sessions of 2 hours over a 13-weeks period. Sessions content is as follows : 1. : Introduction 2. : Sensory approach workshop 3. : Self presentation and personal hygiene 4. : Organisation of well-being, planning and pictograms 5. : Becoming aware of my body, my envelope 6. : Presentation and self-esteem (photolanguage) 7. : Self-presentation in social interactions: Social codes 8. : My ideas and desires for change 9. : Places of well-being and clothing hygiene 10. : Vocational insertion devices 11. : Daring change : presence of a Socio-hairdresser 12. : The awakening of color : presence of a Socio-aesthetician 13. : Development of practice sheets and the network
The treatment of the group TAU (Treatment As Usual) will consist of the usual care proposed by the health service. No additional session will be proposed.
Appreciation of one's own appearance
The main judgement criterion is the difference before/after the program for each of the two groups (IPS and TAU) of the weighted average at the "satisfaction with overall appearance" and "wish to change appearance" dimensions of the BES (Body-Esteem Scale), common dimensions for men and women. This difference will be compared between the 2 groups by a Student test (or a Wilcoxon-Mann-Whitney test in case of non normality).
Time frame: baseline, one month, three months, nine months after the end of the treatment
Appreciation of the Self-esteem measured by the Self-Esteem Rating Scale
As for the primary outcome
Time frame: baseline, one month, three months, nine months after the end of the treatment
Appreciation of the well-being measured by the Warwick-Edinburgh Well-Being Mental Scale
As for the primary outcome
Time frame: baseline, one month, three months, nine months after the end of the treatment
Appreciation of the satisfaction level measured by the Client's Assessment of Strengths, Interests and Goals Scale (CASIG )
As for the primary outcome
Time frame: baseline, one month, three months, nine months after the end of the treatment
Appreciation of the satisfaction measured by the Satisfaction in the domains of life
As for the primary outcome
Time frame: baseline, one month, three months, nine months after the end of the treatment
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